Societal Comparison: by Sheena F.

Time period: 1700 BC to 221 BC 

Significant events during time period: Chinese culture spread eastward to Yellow River, southward to Yangtze

Society One: Shang Dynasty

Society Two: Zhou Dynasty

Political


Social



Economic


Artistic


Religious




Intellectual


Technological

Military

Geographic

Women’s status

Shang Dynasty

Monarchy


- King and nobles: top
- Warriors were powerful
- Peasants had very little

Agriculture & silk


Artisans: weapons, jewelry
pottery

- Shang Di
- Ancestors were important
- Sacrifices to gods and ancestors

Writing/written language, calendar, 

Bronze

Aristocrat, chariots

Yellow River

Obey husband, sacred

Zhou Dynasty

Monarchy, Mandates of Heaven

Kings, Nobles, Peasants 



Agriculture, Trade, Iron, Weapons

Silk


Ancestor worship, Heaven




Math, Astronomy, 


Iron



Wei River

Obey husband, sacred